I noticed this today from the weekly Fedora newsletter. It describes how to setup a VNC server in Fedora. It also talks about security using an SSH tunnel.
http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/2005/11/10/configure-vnc-server-in-fedora/ Carl On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:42 -0700, Kin C Wong wrote: > Thanks to everyone's input on ssh, your comments have been helpful. > Some points will take sometime to further digest. We had fun on this > end the last 24 hours and have declared the mission a success with the > everyone's help. > > There are several critical points that we discovered that need to be > added to the posting thus far. > > 1 X11 needs to be installed and services running > 2 VNCserver needs to be installed and services running > > In order to do remote graphical login > > 3 under SuSe, /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc needs to be edited > (have not tried this under SuSe yet) > under Rhat, /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc needs to be edited (running FC3) > > under the section heading [Kdmcp] Enable=false needs to be changed to > Enable=true > > With this in addition to everyone else's comments, the stage is set. > > I can ssh to one of my internal boxes > > ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Enter the password > > To start a graphical login session, you enter > > kdestart > > (really cool, I can see everything -- even more cool when I can totally > get rid of this crutch) > > If I logoff, I am back into the shell (I think that is what you call it) > > If I want to go to a windoze machine, I can use vnc by > > vncviewer 192.158.10.101:5900 > > A panel will popup asking for the password for the computer. BTW, > vncserver needs to be running and password set on the windoze machine. > > I am sure that I am missing some steps in the setup, I will try to proof > my work as I feel another entry to the blog coming on. I wanted to let > everyone know where I was on this problem and that your help was > appreciated. > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
